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means framing the stories in certain ways and i wanted to really quickly go through this list number five was a number for the afghanistan war number three drones survey and number two bradley manning and number one the n.d.a. a so let's start with the gaza i think to a lot of people who have been watching the news they would be like well we did cover gaza the corporate news did cover the israeli palestinian conflict the problem is that it's extremely biased you hardly ever saw any even alternative news really criticize israel it was mostly just kind of showing israel as the victim and we see that a lot across the corporate media no absolutely and i think that's one thing that we did on this show a lot during the crisis you were covering what was going on on the ground and you were trying to cover it in an objective way that painted a picture that went back beyond you know what the corporate media in the mainstream media was saying was kind of a catalyst for the event which if you were true in tuning in to c.n.n. or tuning in to your fox or any of the even b.b.c. . people were talking abo
means framing the stories in certain ways and i wanted to really quickly go through this list number five was a number for the afghanistan war number three drones survey and number two bradley manning and number one the n.d.a. a so let's start with the gaza i think to a lot of people who have been watching the news they would be like well we did cover gaza the corporate news did cover the israeli palestinian conflict the problem is that it's extremely biased you hardly ever saw any even...
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here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country uses our own are through you know what kind of mind their terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want to give us a defeat terrorism on the on the liberal and the christian point just because your beliefs about it. you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're a profit driven industry that sells us and facials that garbage he calls it breaking news i'm happy martin and we're going to break that. so tonight president obama is returning from his hawaiian christmas vacation early to get a jump start on fiscal cliff negotiations and if he plans to again negotiate away social security benefits that i'll speak on behalf of most progressive then tell him to head back to hawaii and spend more time on the beach last week president obama did what he's routinely hinted at doing in put social security on the table in the fiscal cliff negotiations house democrats led by nancy pelosi
here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country uses our own are through you know what kind of mind their terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want to give us a defeat terrorism on the on the liberal and the christian point just because your beliefs about it. you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're a profit driven industry...
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my pleasure so on the cover of your autumn issue of the trends journal there's a photo of mitt romney and barack obama with a caption that reads the lesser of two evils i mean i hear people all the time tell me obama's going to do more or now they has a second term he doesn't need to worry about re-election or people thinking that he's going to do less because he doesn't care about re-election so what do you think what do you what do you see him specifically doing now that he's doesn't really have to worry about getting those votes you know he's doing more of the same you know i've been at this a lot a lot of years and i have to tell you i've never witnessed an election like this before there's been no post-election bounds. the blood fell off the bomb a rose immediately after election day you saw the equity markets around the world and there's been nothing really since that has happened to have generated any hope or change we can believe in and i want to make this really clear for those of you don't know i'm a political atheist i don't believe in political religions i don't believe in
my pleasure so on the cover of your autumn issue of the trends journal there's a photo of mitt romney and barack obama with a caption that reads the lesser of two evils i mean i hear people all the time tell me obama's going to do more or now they has a second term he doesn't need to worry about re-election or people thinking that he's going to do less because he doesn't care about re-election so what do you think what do you what do you see him specifically doing now that he's doesn't really...
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half the people in the studio right now thought the public is going to lose that election and then if romney had won and then the republicans had taken the senate then america would have been reborn and it be a whole new set of issues that we would have been rude to reborn as a because here we are live in this world not the next but let's look at what democrats have put on the table and try to obama i mean as someone who is to the left of president obama i've been watching the fiscal cliff negotiations and horror i mean he's the first off you raise the limit from two hundred fifty thousand to four hundred thousand he put cuts to social security significant cuts we're talking fifteen hundred dollars less in benefits for people retiring because he's tweaking the the idea is that chicken prices go up and here's can eat cat food so let's see he said ok we can get away rid of the payroll tax cut which basically only helps working class americans how why haven't republicans taken any of these deals and what sort of deal would or would republicans that at this point i think most most conservative r
half the people in the studio right now thought the public is going to lose that election and then if romney had won and then the republicans had taken the senate then america would have been reborn and it be a whole new set of issues that we would have been rude to reborn as a because here we are live in this world not the next but let's look at what democrats have put on the table and try to obama i mean as someone who is to the left of president obama i've been watching the fiscal cliff...
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nationwide than the democrats have the last time i checked the democrats aggregate vote totals fifty point five percent for the house and yet they don't control the house and so that's that's a demonstration of both gerrymandering and incumbency yes. i want to get into this whole issue of the plutocrats that you were talking about let's do that just a much more with bruce bartlett in a special edition of conversations with great minds right after this break. the. welcome back to a special edition of conversations with great minds with bruce bartlett he's been the executive director of the joint economic committee of congress senior policy analyst in the reagan white house deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the treasury department during the george h.w. bush administration and the author of several books including his latest in titled the benefit and the burden tax reform why we need it and what it will take let's get back to it we were we were talking about the you know what is driving this and you mentioned plutocracy i was talking about all of our key. to what extent has plutoc
nationwide than the democrats have the last time i checked the democrats aggregate vote totals fifty point five percent for the house and yet they don't control the house and so that's that's a demonstration of both gerrymandering and incumbency yes. i want to get into this whole issue of the plutocrats that you were talking about let's do that just a much more with bruce bartlett in a special edition of conversations with great minds right after this break. the. welcome back to a special...
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nationwide than the democrats have the last time i checked the democrats aggregate vote totals fifty point five percent for the house and yet they don't control the house and so that's that's and. a demonstration of both gerrymandering and incumbency yes but i want to get into this whole issue of the plutocrats that you were talking about let's do that just more with bruce bartlett in the special edition of conversations with great minds right after this break. wealthy british style it's a restaurant that's right. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. on my. prime. counting on. the. welcome back to a special edition of conversations with great minds with bruce bartlett he's been the executive director of the joint economic committee of congress a senior policy analyst in the reagan white house deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the treasury department during the george h.w. bush administration and the author of several books including
nationwide than the democrats have the last time i checked the democrats aggregate vote totals fifty point five percent for the house and yet they don't control the house and so that's that's and. a demonstration of both gerrymandering and incumbency yes but i want to get into this whole issue of the plutocrats that you were talking about let's do that just more with bruce bartlett in the special edition of conversations with great minds right after this break. wealthy british style it's a...
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fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney debating whatever break here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election over that would be the pie in the sky is that the day i would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an annoyance to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties because parties into that which are blocking traffic reminders of it for first time tonight i think you know. i don't think i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break
fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney debating whatever break here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you...
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elections it was a very tight race between president obama and mitt romney in france we had a new president elected and people followed that in russia there was an election but not much choice and in china there wasn't even the pretended they didn't pretend to elect a new leader they just put someone there and people don't want that people want democracy people want to say people want to play a role in their societies china does not offer that to them in the political sphere and therefore i believe for a long time coming there's not going to be a chinese century while alexander what about the middle class what it said about the middle class because that's the power of the west traditionally. yes i mean the middle class is very strong in the west pretty is right there are problems we have a declining middle class that is something we have to fight but for the time being we are both the most competitive societies and the most equitable societies if you look at the distribution of income in china in russia in brazil you will see that the first the people at the very top they will get so much m
elections it was a very tight race between president obama and mitt romney in france we had a new president elected and people followed that in russia there was an election but not much choice and in china there wasn't even the pretended they didn't pretend to elect a new leader they just put someone there and people don't want that people want democracy people want to say people want to play a role in their societies china does not offer that to them in the political sphere and therefore i...
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away with the baloney i'm really happy that he won for one reason and one reason only is because if romney were one people were to give him a chance give them a chance as things are going down now with no one not many people now have any high expectations from all bamma people have no high expectations from government when the vacuum is this big you can fill it with something different you could fill it with different music you can fill it with different entertainment you can fill it with different messages so there are very a lot of positive things happening as the whole system is on raveling as well again a renaissance was born from death and we have a death of culture a death of style a death of the integrity a death of passion a death of a death of rhys bags and a death of courage so when this death happens something new is born reborn born to replace it. again a point about it's a return to quality and not a happy revolution but i think you should consider a nehru jacket and love beads for a tyrant twenty thirteen but we're out of time general thanks so much for being on the kaiser re
away with the baloney i'm really happy that he won for one reason and one reason only is because if romney were one people were to give him a chance give them a chance as things are going down now with no one not many people now have any high expectations from all bamma people have no high expectations from government when the vacuum is this big you can fill it with something different you could fill it with different music you can fill it with different entertainment you can fill it with...
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i think the whole debate is wrong between romney and obama between all this bipartisan foreign policy about how strong we should be and can we get stronger and stronger wiser than anybody else i had this mindset asking what is the path away from global control why can we not join the world and be a peaceful cooperative member of a. global perspective with a global history that we belong together as one planet especially with the climate threat is upon us so this is what's lacking in our schools and i think we have what they call american exceptionalism at the root of our heart we look at the flag and we think that's the greatest good ever existed that people are dying to come here and that we are the greatest this is a very i think i mean healthy mind set the conventional wisdom and docketed. you know that obama sweetheart. because you think so doesn't nothing last in history that we know six empires fill in the twentieth century there's bound there were no . the empire can last except through we may maintain the military to a million which is probable because of our space age over th
i think the whole debate is wrong between romney and obama between all this bipartisan foreign policy about how strong we should be and can we get stronger and stronger wiser than anybody else i had this mindset asking what is the path away from global control why can we not join the world and be a peaceful cooperative member of a. global perspective with a global history that we belong together as one planet especially with the climate threat is upon us so this is what's lacking in our schools...
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here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just the guy who cares an awful lot like you sir are you know what kind of my theory sounds good i want to give us a defeat terrorism on the liberal and the chris. can you believe that it's. going to look at you distract us from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industry that facials that garbage you call that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that it's. been screwed news a labor strike is looming on the east coast the international longshoremen's association which represents dock workers from fourteen ports on these ghost is threatening to strike this weekend was management abandons its plans to cut wages for future workers this comes just weeks after a successful port strike in los angeles or workers walked off the job in solidarity with eight hundred clerical workers who fear their jobs might be. it's outsourced to low wage labor nations at strike lasted eight days and shut down ten to fourteen major ports on the w
here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just the guy who cares an awful lot like you sir are you know what kind of my theory sounds good i want to give us a defeat terrorism on the liberal and the chris. can you believe that it's. going to look at you distract us from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industry that facials that garbage you call that breaking news i'm having martin and we're...
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it is wise to choose relatively affluent parents but you know they're self-made in the way of a mitt romney that yes you know ultimately grew up in a family that became extremely affluent but bain capital he didn't inherit he built it himself as the negroes so that's central to their identity but the other thing that's happening and i think this is a really big issue and a real problem in politics today is partly because of the globalized nature of the economy the super rich today increasingly are becoming a community a tribe unto themselves this sort of global group of super rich who hang out with one another do business with one another stay in the same hotels around the world and have increasingly little to do with the communities back home you know i read the part of your book and what struck me when you were talking about how they had basically become a country under themselves you describe one one guy who had three passports three nations and he said i don't know what i'm nation of you know what. what struck me is that this almost sounds like a description of you know relates the seco
it is wise to choose relatively affluent parents but you know they're self-made in the way of a mitt romney that yes you know ultimately grew up in a family that became extremely affluent but bain capital he didn't inherit he built it himself as the negroes so that's central to their identity but the other thing that's happening and i think this is a really big issue and a real problem in politics today is partly because of the globalized nature of the economy the super rich today increasingly...
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working people do they have their carried interest in their capital gains loopholes so you know like romney their income taxes are kept out at less than after that of working people billionaire and standees could care less about cuts to social insurance programs like medicare and social security with billions in their bank accounts and a lot of it offshore already have their retirement their health insurance coverage and they pay virtually nothing in taxes to keep these programs alive billionaires standings don't give a damn about crumbling infrastructure they have their private jets which they can fly over congested roads and crumbling bridges billionaire a standings aren't bothered by custom public education they send their kids to the most elite private schools and ultimately billionaires standings could care less about the american economy and make most of their money overseas anyway in developing nations where they've outsourced what were once american jobs and american factories and they keep it stashed in offshore tax havens like the cayman islands it's the united states collapses bi
working people do they have their carried interest in their capital gains loopholes so you know like romney their income taxes are kept out at less than after that of working people billionaire and standees could care less about cuts to social insurance programs like medicare and social security with billions in their bank accounts and a lot of it offshore already have their retirement their health insurance coverage and they pay virtually nothing in taxes to keep these programs alive...
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here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that many americans call. i don't know. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about you sorry are you know what kind of mind they're terrorists out but i don't want to be listening to futurism be on the liberal democrats and republicans. can really sort of. going to support me to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that's all the facials that garbage you call that breaking news i'm out here martin and we're going to break this but. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old so if you told the truth. i'm a consensus and i'm a total get of friends that i love driving hip hop music and for. that he was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you it's a place. well just moments ago the senate approved a sixty billion dollars hurricane sandy relief package but critics many of them republicans say the reconstruction package is too massive bigger than the annual budget for the department of interior labor and treasury beyo
here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that many americans call. i don't know. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about you sorry are you know what kind of mind they're terrorists out but i don't want to be listening to futurism be on the liberal democrats and republicans. can really sort of. going to support me to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that's all the facials that garbage you call that...
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every direction and rank and a five hundred dollar a pay cut that's why it will cost a u.s. marine sergeant for at this a great ng the bodies of dead taliban soldiers he was found guilty of year in aiding on them and posing with their corpses retired u.s. colonel and diplomat and wright says the people of afghanistan feel a lot of anger over american troops behavior oh i was in afghanistan last week and i talked to a lot of people in afghanistan and they are very. they are outraged about these things that are you have smaller terry people have been doing to them the brutal slaughter of people i mean over and above that where you have sergeant bales' that has. killed sixteen afghans you have this incident of the u.s. military personnel all marines urinating on the the bodies. taleban you have the issue of the koran being burned on a military base so afghans are very upset about what the u.s. military is doing here president obama has nominated founder john kerry as a candidate for the job of the usa stop diplomat vietnam veteran an anti-war activist could take over from hilla
every direction and rank and a five hundred dollar a pay cut that's why it will cost a u.s. marine sergeant for at this a great ng the bodies of dead taliban soldiers he was found guilty of year in aiding on them and posing with their corpses retired u.s. colonel and diplomat and wright says the people of afghanistan feel a lot of anger over american troops behavior oh i was in afghanistan last week and i talked to a lot of people in afghanistan and they are very. they are outraged about these...
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disastrous run on the bank and run on the stock now here's another question i have to ask and that romney the supreme court and others have said time and again that corporations are people but if that's the case why isn't this negative a corporation being punished like you or i would be and what happens like to me for instance if i did the things that h.s.b.c. has admitted to. you know and even in my business at harrington capital management you know we're dotting i's and crossing t's more than ever because of the increased scrutiny in the regulatory environment is just that it really kind of it's disenchanting to see a major bank like this run into issues this major and not have a more heightened scrutiny or punishment level than they've already had and so it's disenchanting meghan in a big way let me ask you very quickly we only have about fifteen seconds left but if it was up to you how would you see h.s.b.c. punished well i think that there has to be fines levied against the bank that are much more egregious in nature and i want to make sure that the people that were at risk of being
disastrous run on the bank and run on the stock now here's another question i have to ask and that romney the supreme court and others have said time and again that corporations are people but if that's the case why isn't this negative a corporation being punished like you or i would be and what happens like to me for instance if i did the things that h.s.b.c. has admitted to. you know and even in my business at harrington capital management you know we're dotting i's and crossing t's more than...